Autoflower training

[grouchyoldman]

What the heck Canuck, go Full Monty and drop one of those little bboyfromwayback scrog screens on top!

You've clearly got command of these autos enough to train them under the screen and it should be less stressful than additional LST anyways. Set a Little 18"x18" grid at leaf level & just keep tuckin shoots under the screen till they won't let you anymore?

Everyone bitches about how "Fast" autos are, but you've shown that they can be trained without problems. And you're obviously babysitting these little ones assiduously.

Great experiment, Never seen it done before...

[Canuck147]

No scrog - I like being able to take my plants out of the tent - not having them held down where it's nearly impossible to trim.

[bboyfromwayback]

I tried to scrog my last autos and I removed the screen after a week. Once autos start to flower the get hard really quick so the screen was holding them back. The tomato ring on its own made itself useful to keep everything spread out

[SoOrbudgal]

2 Amnesia haze auto,1 sickly dark devil auto, 3 la berry fruita females won't use outdoor for autos again in winter to difficult for me to keep temps up in a screen in patio. 40f on temp gage in the tent it's 60f. Also won't use the folgers cont. anymore unless i have dwarf seeds. Had not trained any do to enviornment.

[Woodsman67]

I definitely want to see auto training. So far, out of my dozen or so autos, I have accidently broke the top off of 2 around 3 to 4 weeks grow. One went one to produce massive flowers, one just couldn't really recover. So my interest is piqued. I also have questions on WPM. I am in Missouri. Grow outside and you'll have some form of mildew at some point due to high humidity here and tons of mold and mildew spores everywhere. But indoors it has never been an issue. I am wondering if control of the reasons you have wpm wouldn't be better than sprays. Like complete tear down and clean everything with bleach, sorry if I came on board late and missed that detail, for me I have to do it every 6 months, it has made a difference. Looking forward to seeing how flowers turn out

[Canuck147]

Tent broken down and cleaned with bleach - did that - but I'll keep wiping it down every chance I get. I don't accidently lose the tops of my plants - I deliberatley cut them off

[Canuck147]

They're doing so well with the full strength nutes we decided to water and feed them with the same nutes. They all lost a few leaves.

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[SoOrbudgal]

Looking much better than my auto grow these are reg. seeds and not real good luck with getting fems. Out of 4 i got 2 males and 1 looking male maybe 1 female. I should of just tossed them wasted time not doing fems. La berry fruita 6 seed replacements 4 more males.

[JeffInCanada]

Very nice work!

[CaptainWiese91]

What a progress! I’ve been away for some weeks.
Looking really good

[SoOrbudgal]

Nothing like training practice on males LOL figures. Not tossed yet but 2 more days all should show there sex better.

[SoOrbudgal]

Sorry for the crappy pics can't get good closeups blurry

[Canuck147]

It's all good

[Canuck147]

Something I've been meaning to tell my girls - courtesy of that Canadian Hoser = Mike Myers - "Take off eh" - which is also the polite Canadian way of telling someone to f-off

[SoOrbudgal]

Love that phrase

[JeffInCanada]

Take off eh, ya hoser....go get yourself some beer and back bacon. Watch some hockey eh...chug, chug. chug some of that sweet sweet maple syrup. Have a draw, puff, puff. Screech you in out in Newfoundland. All good bro

[Canuck147]

Party on Jeff
Party on Garth.

[Catfish22]

Here is a comparison for the topped 00 kush auto, topped at day 30 and now at day 34.
Apologies for the burples!

[Canuck147]

Looks great.

[Canuck147]

Group shot today - busy baking and cleaning - watered with a tea blend today - been re-setting their bindings twice a day - today they didn't need much resetting - me myself and I all think we got em right where we want em.

[SoOrbudgal]

Hey those are looking great. And i got 3 females out of my reg. auto seeds blooming really helps on these tiny little pollen sacks i even tried with a huge magnifieing glass. I did'nt take time much for training on them, sorry Weed Master i will do much better next go on them. Branchs now are scary stiff i don't want to snap a bud site off LOL may make me cry cry.

[Canuck147]

Batting average just went up.

[HobbitGDF]

here is sour diesel auto by seedsman. it was a freebie. well see how it handles being topped and mainlined. i think im try nebulas manifold style. i am also going to manifold one of my gorilla girl XL autos. seems to be a good strain for the training.

[HobbitGDF]

here is what i did this morning to my gorilla girl XL auto p1 (plant 1)

i was going to do the manifold like nebula but there was an issue. one of the branches topped itself.

[Canuck147]

Took the kids outside for a group pic

[Catfish22]

I've got a couple huge fan leaves that came from the last node below the topping site. I want to remove them to open up the bud sites underneath.

My concern is will I have enough fans to go 7-8 more weeks in flower?

Will the flowering stretch period also grow the existing fan leaves larger or are they as big as they are going to get?

How many of the smaller fans that come out with the bud sites can be removed?

Apologies, just stuff that has come up during this training experience.

[Canuck147]

I find with autoflowers the leaves grow back - they won't grow back late in flowering.

I have no hesitations removing fan leaves.

[Catfish22]

Thanks, just thought I would check, I've read you have to be careful in late bloom because they don't grow back but I had not seen anything about flowering stretch.

Time for a haircut!

[Canuck147]

pics from yesterday - been raining for a few days and what do I spot on one leaf? Dreaded spot of WPM - cut that leaf off and today sprayed them with Defender Garden Fungicide by Safer's. Tent pic is after watering with full strength nutes and sprayed.

They usually lose a few leaves everyday - but today we decided to leave the top fan leaves that are blocking a few bud sites- cuz it looks like maybe the underneath branches might grow out enough to get more light.

[Canuck147]

Just gotta pay attention to one's grow. - doesn't bother me - I expect it to show up sometime. I've resigned myself long ago to losing 10% of every grow to some kind of mold or rot .
WPM likes to show up during any wet weather.

[Catfish22]

Yeah it sucks when you see the conditions developing and there is not a dang thing you can do about it.

At least we have remedies for most things but it sucks having to put anything on our plants after all we put in to them. You are an excellent grower though, I know you'll get it straight.

[Canuck147]

All those leaves I sprayed will eventually be trimmed off .

[Canuck147]

Lucy here - after a slow start she's become the most fun to watch and LST. I'll see how many branches grow up from those branches I've been laying down - I topped her but something has grown up in the middle - go figure.

[Canuck147]

I see in that pic above she's growing knuckles.

[Catfish22]

I've noticed that quite a few autos still retain that drive for apical dominance even after they are topped.

I presume that is part of whatever Ruderalis genetics are present .

[Canuck147]

Ruderalis is what makes em shorter and automatically flower.

[Canuck147]

Took the girls outside for watering and full strength nutes - looks like we're on to the next stage- flowering - my plants will do a bit of a stretch - but we've got their stage set now it's up to them to show me how much of a stretch - I would say Lucy could use a decent stretch - but we'll see.

[SoOrbudgal]

Looking real healthy they sure do like your care. It really makes a difference understanding MJs likes and dislikes. Thanks Canuck

[Canuck147]

Thanks SoOrbudgal

[CaptainWiese91]

How many days now ?

[Canuck147]

Not bragging - but - i think I've got the right nutrients mixed into the correct soil mix that my cannabis plants thrive in. Just gotta watch out for bugs or other stuff